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  1. mikelink45
    Yes to the steal. I loved Billy Martin's aggressiveness, I thought Whitey Herzog's Cardinals were great, and Rickey Henderson is a plus in any era. Why does a team give up on any of the skills? I know sabr-metrics cannot measure the quality of confusion and upset that speed has on the other team, but I have seen it and I want to see more.
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    The thing I am interested in is the metrics that tell us who is willing to sign with us. All the noise about Cole and Strasburg mean nothing if neither would consider us. I do not need to talk about every FA on the list, only those we have a real chance to sign.
  3. mikelink45
    Sign the one that is willing to sign with us. This is not an either or, we could afford both, but the fact is, we have to take those willing to become Twins.
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    mikelink45 commented on mikelink45's blog entry in mikelink45's Blog

    Good guesses - don't read the answers if you want to keep guessing. When Mr Harris gave me this question - he stumped me. I missed by one. By the way he introduced Bert Blyleven to his wife.
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    I am ready - bring him on
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    mikelink45 posted a blog entry in mikelink45's Blog

    I have had the good fortune to be with Mark Harris, a former minor leaguer who threw batting practice for the Twins in the sixties. He once threw Home Run Derby to Aaron and Killebrew and has their autographs! He proposed a question to me that I flunked on, but it was too fun not to pass on. Name five pitchers who had a Cy Young and were convicted of a felony. https://dcbaseballhistory.com/d-c-baseball-history-assorted-videos/1960-home-run-derby-washington-players/ Good luck
  7. mikelink45
    Very nice - I agree completely. In an era when Robbie Grossman is considered for the Gold Glove I do not want to hear about defensive metrics.
  8. mikelink45
    If we get Wheeler the FA season will essentially be over. But the problem is when I go through the other sites and their listing of FA pitchers I do not see the Twins being high on any of the primary FA lists. We are still not a destination and that is a problem. Will Odorizzi take the QO - he should, it is over paying and if he believes in himself that should be good enough. I cannot plan for the Twins, but I can hope. Bring in Wheeler, have Odorizzi start, use Graterol and Dobnak in the rotation. Start looking at the Kiriloff, Larnach, Rooker, Raley group for reinforcements, and use Astudillo for a year until Jeffers comes up at Catcher.
  9. mikelink45
    Sano and Berrios are the two I would do. I do not trust RPs to have long productive careers so Rogers is under control long enough to satisfy me. Garver had the misfortune to be a late bloomer and his age at the end of the controllable years is too iffy at this point, give it another year. Rosario is not as underrated as I continually see in these columns - https://twinsdaily.com/blogs/entry/11683-%7B%3F%7D/ but that does not mean I would do an extension at this point. And Buxton? What a question mark he is. His fragility is a real problem and the question will be, if he turns a corner and stays healthy, can he retain the speed and agility that has made him such an exciting player. Without speed his fielding goes down, his base running goes down, and so does his BA. I am not ready to extend him.
  10. mikelink45
    I am not looking for him, unless Rosario is gone and Buxton is back on IR. Then it would make sense, but otherwise the roster looks full at his positions. At 1B I expect Cron back, but it could be Sano, Garver, Gonzalez, or even Rooker.
  11. mikelink45
    No - they are already working on speeding up the game - this weekend I was driven crazy by the NFL downtime for review and the same with the World Series.
  12. mikelink45
    I am not excited about keeping many of these players on the 40. My only question with each name is - can a team afford to waste a place on their roster for the entire season to have that player. Javier is my prime example - he can't compete in the MiLB and you are afraid to lose him to MLB? Why? Raley? If you have room fine, but we have Larnach, Kiriloff, Cave, Wade. Keep him, but not if it jeopardizes someone more important. How many of these will make the Twins lineup in the next three years? What are their odds? Package a batch and make a trade. Move on and make the Twins into a better team.
  13. mikelink45
    Ho hum - next! Lots of lists so far, lots of are we interested in this guy scenarios. I only want to see those that will make us better, not make us the same.
  14. mikelink45
    I think we must have watched different seasons - Severino was injured most of the year - when he came back he was lights out - again. Paxton and Tanaka over Odorizzi and Pineda - without a doubt.
  15. mikelink45
    I am ready for this. Why not? What is the argument for letting errors we can correct influence the game? I know it means that the quick hand artists who steal strikes less important - is that bad?
  16. mikelink45
    I used to call for Gonsalves to be promoted, but as he was exposed over the last two years my enthusiasm disappeared. At 26 he has not shown me anything that calls this move into question. Graterol, Balozovic, Duran are all ahead of him now. We have Smeltzer, Dobnak, Littell, Alcala, Stashak, Thorpe on the 40 man and Enlow, Colina, Sands, and Vallimont in the minors. I do not think Gonsalves had a chance and he did not deserve it. My question is about Romero, Harper, Hildenberger - have I missed announcements about them?
  17. mikelink45
    I love the idea. Wasting arms in the minors and even the worry about service time drive me crazy. Yes they can learn in the minors and most need to, but raw talent plays at any level. In a year or two in the majors he could approach the number 1 - Ace - level that we are in need of.
  18. mikelink45
    He could be this generations Nellie Fox or Rod Carew. He will study the pitchers just like they will study him. Who wins? It will be fascinating.
  19. mikelink45
    No - concentrate on pitching, work with Astudillo, Jeffers, Rortvedt. These are good hot stove topics, but what he will want takes him out of the platoon catcher discussion and no way do the Twins want to slow down Garver. Garver is actually getting to the age where many catchers drop off. He hit is stride at an older age than most and my concern for the Twins is in 2 - 3 years. Make sure the young catchers are ready.
  20. mikelink45
    If it were not for the Orioles I might think you were right.
  21. mikelink45
    Randy was a nice story. If he is in the rotation we have not done enough.
  22. mikelink45
    They have 4 ex Twins. So I guess we are actually their model! The take aways are great hitters - Rendon and Soto and Great pitchers Strasburg and Scherzer. That is an easy model, except you have to be lucky or determined to get them. They had three excellent starters, the Twins have one. What did the Twins lack? The starters! The clutch hitters. But we are close so lets keep building out own model. And do not forget the Astros. The Nationals won, but the Astros also had the combination of great starters and clutch hitters which is why it went seven games.
  23. mikelink45
    In this age of communications a site like TD probably has more influence than any fan related communications ever have. When we get a break down like this it is an easy cut and paste. So maybe we underestimate the reach of TD.
  24. mikelink45
    Sure Arizona can pair him with Escobar in the middle of their lineup. Still if we get Robbie Ray I am happy.
  25. mikelink45
    Thank you for a sensible response. I have never seen a group so anxious to trade a good player spend so much ink telling everyone how terrible he is. The HR and RBIs do matter. As a matter of fact with the HRs of Cruz and Kepler and Polanco it is amazing he found that many he could drive in. https://twinsdaily.com/blogs/entry/11683-%7B%3F%7D/
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